AR Fox vs. Swerve Strickland Announced for Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Show
AEW CEO Tony Khan announced one new match for the card of Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee.
This new match announced was a single match of AR Fox vs. Swerve Strickland.
TOMORROW, Wednesday, 1/22
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) January 22, 2025
Knoxville, TN
8pm ET/7pm CT on TBS + Max
Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite@ARealFoxx vs @swerveconfident
After returning to AEW last Wednesday to confront @KingRicochet, Swerve will face an old rival tomorrow: AR Fox!
Swerve vs Fox on TBS + Max,
TOMORROW! pic.twitter.com/Q8QeYH8Nhy
Current card for January 22nd AEW Dynamite show:
- AEW World Tag Team Championship – Hurt Syndicate (Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley) vs. Private Party (Zay & Quen) (c)
- “Rated R Superstar” Cope vs. PAC
- Samoa Joe vs. Nick Wayne
- Julia Hart vs. Jamie Hayter
- AR Fox vs. Swerve Strickland
- Will Ospreay & Chris Jericho to go face-to-face
Saraya & Ronnie Radke Reportedly Ended Their Relationship
TMZ Sports reported that their sources stated that AEW talent Saraya and musician Ronnie Radke ended their relationship of six years in late of 2024.
It was reported that those spoken to stated that signs pointing to Saraya and Radke’s relationship breaking up had lasted for more than a month.
It was reported that the biggest sign of the couple splitting was Saraya did not give a shoutout on social media for Radke’s birthday on December 15th and something that is opposite of what is pretty standard for people in love to do.
It was also reported that the exact cause of their decision to breakup as a couple is currently not known. It was speculated that their busy work schedules likely played a role due to Saraya travels with AEW all the time while Radke’s band Falling In Reverse is ” booking gigs left and right.”
AEW News & Notes
AEW recently released a new AEW Timelines video featuring a look back at Will Ospreay’s 2024 career year in AEW.
Mercedes Mone recently released a new vlog featuring her recent trip to Japan and wrestling at the Tokyo Dome for AEW and NJPW’s Wrestle Dynasty event earlier this month.
As noted before, Brody King filed a new trademark for “Hounds of Hell” last week for a potential new post-House of Black stable featuring him, Buddy Matthews, and Julia Hart. In a follow-up, King filed a new trademark for “Cerberus” on January 19th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes. Cerberus is known in Greek mythology for being the three-headed hound of the Greek god of death Hades.
Fightful Select reported that those spoken to with AEW stated that last week’s AEW Dynamite show viewership on ITV was their third highest live viewership for a show in over two years in the United Kingdom. Last week’s show reportedly drew 113,000 viewers for live and same day viewership. Those spoken to reportedly also stated that the prior week’s show drew the second best viewership for a Dynamite show on ITV over the past year at 139,000 viewers. It was reported that AEW received the viewership numbers for their recent shows from ITV officials. It was also reported that recent internal discussions within AEW touted their shows as one of their hottest current viewership streaks in the UK in a while.
In a recent interview with FOX Sports’ Fanrun Radio, Rock ‘N Roll Express’ Ricky Morton gave his thoughts about Kenny Omega being an amazing wrestler and how he is well worth the price of a ticket to see. Morton stated “That’s worth the ticket price. He is absolutely amazing. He’s one of the guys that I look at that set the new trend in professional wrestling. He takes it beyond means in a wrestling ring. He steps up.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
Former AEW and current TNA Wrestling talent Mike Santana recently reflected on Twitter about his current run in TNA and how someone had told him to “say goodbye to wrestling in packed arenas” when he was released from AEW. Santana stated “True story. When I got my release, someone told me to “Say goodbye to wrestling in packed arenas…” I legit laughed it off and said WATCH ME! Jokes on you papi. 🤭😉 #TNA“
In a recent episode of the My World with Jeff Jarrett podcast, Jeff Jarrett gave his thoughts about his promo segment with MJF on the January 15th AEW Dynamite Maximum Carnage show and his belief that MJF has “lost his way” in AEW. Jarrett stated “I kind of went back and forth on just giving MJF even the most little bit of rebuttal of his nonsense. You kind of go over the history of MJF, whether it’s Adam Cole, or Punk, or any of his feuds, he’s likes to verbally joust and to me, it’s passe. He wants to go there, I’ll go there and much further. Like I told him in the promo, that may be one of the truest lines that I’ll ever tell, old Max, I was you because you were you. I’m very curious to see where all of this goes. I knew from my statement on January 1 was going to ruffle some feathers, I actually didn’t think it would ruffle his feathers the most, but it has. He got a little bit of a receipt, he’ll have a few more coming. He covered his eyes up like a little bitch and I guarantee his knuckles are as sore as his eye was. We have both talked offline, we really believe he is an incredible talent, but I think he’s lost his way. I’ll just say that. The one hit wonder line stuck and to me, it’s more appropriate than I thought, but I said it almost tongue and cheek. But man, I believe he’s lost his way.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
In a recent interview with The Ariel Helwani Show, former MMA fighter and current indies wrestler Josh Barrett gave his thoughts about how AEW can consolidate itself to help improve their product and compete better against WWE’s own hot product. Barrett stated “It is, but I think AEW needs to consolidate a bit in that…if they have some certain shows that are not their main shows, look at how to build some of these shows, even Zero Hour, that stuff, in ways that would be better used maybe, by them, but also don’t look at everything as just, if it’s not winning yet, get rid of it. I can understand that, but I want to see those sort of things for AEW so they have these other ways which they can approach wrestlers, wrestling fans, and they have a pretty substantial roster. It can keep people busy, which is good for them, and it’s just, in this day and age with social media, I’m sure AEW has their reasons for why they cut certain programs, and I’m not acting as if I know why those are, I’m just speculating. But at times, and really quite often, people see somebody, ‘Oh, they cut show X out,’ they just do nothing but throw scorn and negativity and say it was all because they’re sucking or they’re this. That’s the easiest route to take, the easiest route to get someone to pay attention to what you say. In that sense, it’s like creating a potential backlash or negative talking point for something that isn’t necessarily done out of any of the reasons somebody comes up with.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)